List of Ediacaran genera


This is a list of all described Ediacaran genera, including the Ediacaran biota. 227 genera are contained in this list.


NameAuthorsYearTaxonomyValidityNotesCountry
AffinovendiaSokolov1984reinterpretated as trace fossil Treptichnus lublinensis and Cambrian in age
AlbumaresFedonkin1976Trilobozoa
AmorphiaGrytsenko2016
AnabyliaVodanjuk1989discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
AndivaFedonkin2002Proarticulata
AnfestaFedonkin1984Trilobozoa
AnnulatubusCalla A. Carbone et al.2015
AnnulusichnusZhang1986junior synonym of Gaojiashania, tubular fossil
ArboreaGlaessner et Wade1966junior synonym of Charniodiscus
ArchaeaspinusIvantsov2007Proarticulata
ArchaeichniumGlaessner1963tubular conical fossil
ArchangeliaFedonkin1979Bilaterally symmetric organism with ovoid shape, and midline axial zone. Junior synonym of Onegia nenoxa.
ArkaruaGehling1987
ArmilliferaFedonkin1980Proarticulata
ArumberiaGlaessner et Walter1975
AskinicaBekker1996discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
AspidellaBillings1872biradial discoid fossil
AstraGrytsenko2016
AtakiaPalij1979
AusiaHahn et Pflug1985
AvalofractusNarbonne, Laflamme, Greentree et Trusler2009
AviculaichnusGrytsenko2009junior synonym of Nenoxites
BaikalinaSokolov1972junior synonym of Ernietta
BarmiaBekker1996discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
BeltanellaSprigg1947discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
BeltanelliformisMenner1974cyanobacterial colonydiscoid fossil
BeltanelloidesSokolov1972nomen nudum, synonym of Beltanelliformis
BeothukisBrasier et Antcliffe2009
BernasheviaGrytsenko2016
BessarabiaGureev1988discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
BilinichnusFedonkin et Palij1979Trace fossiltrace fossil or pseudofossil
BlackbrookiaBoynton et Ford1995rejected as valid taxon, "ivesheadiomorph"-type fossil structure
BomakelliaFedonkin1985possible junior synonym of Rangea
BonataFedonkin1980
BrachinaWade1972
BradgatiaBoynton et Ford1995
BronicellaZaika-Novatsky1965discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
BuchholzbrunnichnusGerms1973
BunyerichnusGlaessner1969pseudofossil
BurykhiaFedonkin, Vickers-Rich, Swalla, Trusler et Hall2012
CalyptrinaSokolov1965
CatellichnusBekker1989palaeopascichnid
CatenasphaerophytonYan et al.1992palaeopascichnid
CharniaFord1958
CharniodiscusFord1958
ChondroplonWade1971probably a junior synonym of Dickinsonia
CloudinaGerms1972
CocardiaGrytsenko2016
ConomedusitesGlaessner et Wade1966
ConotubusZhang et Lin1986
CoronacollinaClites, Droser et Gehling2012Sponge
CorumbellaHahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug et Walde1982
CyanorusIvantsov2004
CyclomedusaSprigg1947discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
DactyloichnusGrytsenko2016
DickinsoniaSprigg1947
EdiacariaSprigg1947discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
ElainabellaStephen M. Rowland and Margarita G. Rodriguez2014Protoctistamulticellular alga
ElaseniaFedonkin1983
EoandromedaTang, Yin, Bengtson, Liu, Wang et Gao2008Ctenophora
EocyathispongiaZongjun Yin et al.2015Poriferasmall 3 chambered sponge
EoporpitaWade1972
EpibaionIvantsov2002Trace fossilgrazing traces of Proarticulata
ErniettaPflug1966
EvmiaksiaFedonkin1984discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
FedomiaSerezhnikova et Ivantsov2007Sponge
FlavostratumSerezhnikova2013
FractofususGehling et Narbonne2007
FrondophyllasBamforth et Narbonne2009
FunisiaDroser et Gehling2008
GaojiashaniaYang, Zhang et Lin1986
GaraniaBekker1996discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
GehlingiaMcMenamin1998
GibbavasisVaziri, Majidifard et Laflamme2018
GlaessnerinaGerms1973junior synonym of Charnia
GureevellaMenasova2006
HadrynichordeHofmann, O'Brien, et King2008
HagenettaHahn et Pflug1988junior synonym of Beltanelliformis
HallidayaWade1969
HaootiaLiu et al.2014Cnidaria
HarlaniellaSokolov1972Vendotaenid
HapsidophyllasBamforth et Narbonne2009
HiemaloraFedonkin1982
HorodyskiaYochelson & Fedonkin2000
IchnusaDebrenn et Naud1981
InariaGehling1987
InkryloviaFedonkin1979junior synonym of Onegia
IntritesFedonkin1980palaeopascichnid
IrridinitusFedonkin1983discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
IvesheadiaBoynton et Ford1995rejected as valid taxon, "ivesheadiomorph"-type fossil structure
IvoviciaIvantsov2007Proarticulata
JampoliumGureev1988discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
KaisaliaFedonkin1984discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
KarakhtiaIvantsov2004Proarticulata
KeretsaIvantsov2017
KhatyspytiaFedonkin1985
KimberellaGlaessner & Wade1966
KimberichnusIvantsov2013Trace fossilgrazing traces of Kimberella
KomaroviaGrytsenko2016
KuibisiaHahn et Pflug1985
KuckaraukiaRazumovskiy, Ivantsov, Novikov et Korochantsev2015
LamonteMeyer, Xiao, Gill, Schiffbauer, Chen, Zhou et Yuan2014Trace fossil
LomoziellaGrytsenko2016
LomosovisFedonkin1983
LorenzinitesGlaessner et Wade1966possible junior synonym of Rugoconites
LossiniaIvantsov2007Proarticulata
MadiganiaSprigg1949not Madigania, replaced by the Spriggia
MargaritiflabellumIvantsov2014
MarywadeaGlaessner1976Proarticulata
MawsonitesGlaessner et Wade1966
MedusinaSprigg1949not Medusina, replaced by the Medusinites
MedusinitesGlaessner et Wade1966discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
MedvezichnusFedonkin1985Trace fossilunique specimen of doubtful nature
MezeniaSokolov1976
MialsemiaFedonkin1985junior synonym of Bomakellia
NadalinaNarbonne et Hofmann1987discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
NamacalathusGrotzinger, Watters, et Knoll2000
NamaliaGerms1968
NamamedusiumZessin2008junior synonym of Beltanelliformis
NamapoikiaWood, Grotzinger et Dickson2002
NasepiaGerms1973
NemianaPalij1976junior synonym of Beltanelliformis
NenoxitesFedonkin1976
NilpeniaDroser et al.2014
NimbiaFedonkin1980
ObamusDzaugis, Evans, Droser, Gehling et Hughes2018
OlgerdinaGrytsenko2016
OnegaFedonkin1976Proarticulata
OnegiaSokolov1976
OrbisianaSokolov1976palaeopascichnid
OrthogoniumGürich1930
OvatoscutumGlaessner et Wade1966Proarticulata
PalaeopascichnusPalij1976palaeopascichnid
PalaeophragmodictyaGehling et Rigby1996
PalaeospintherMenasova2006
PaleoplatodaFedonkin1979
PaliellaFedonkin1980discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
PambikalbaeJenkins et Nedin2007
PapillionataSprigg1947Proarticulatajunior synonym of Dickinsonia
ParacharniaSun1986
ParamedusiumGürich1933discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
ParavendiaIvantsov2004Proarticulata
ParvancorinaGlaessner1958
ParviscopaHofmann, O'Brien et King2008
PectinifronsBamforth, Narbonne et Anderson2008
PersimedusitesHahn et Pflug1980
PetalostomaPflug1973rejected as valid taxon
PhyllozoonJenkins et Gehlig1978Proarticulata
PlanomedusitesSokolov1972discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
PlatypholiniaFedonkin1985
PlexusJoel, Droser & Gehling2014
PodolimirusFedonkin1983Proarticulata
PodoliinaGureev1988junior synonym of Nenoxites
PollukiaGureev1987discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
PomoriaFedonkin1980
PraecambridiumGlaessner et Wade1966Proarticulata
PrimocandelabrumHofmann, O'Brien et King2008
PropalaeolinaMenasova2006
ProtechiurusGlaessner1979
ProtodipleurosomaSprigg1949discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
ProtoniobiaSprigg1949discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
PseudohiemalorachnusGrytsenko2009junior synonym of Nenoxites
PseudorhizostomitesSprigg1949problematic biogenic structure
PseudorhopilemaSprigg1949junior synonym of Pseudorhizostomites
PseudovendiaBoynton et Ford1979rejected as valid taxon, "ivesheadiomorph"-type fossil structures
PteridiniumGürich1933
RamellinaFedonkin1980
RangeaGürich1929
RedkiniaSokolov1977
RugoconitesGlaessner et Wade1966
SaarinaSokolov1965
SeirisphaeraChen, Xiao et Yuan1996palaeopascichnid
SekwiaHofmann1981discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
SekwitubulusCalla A. Carbone et al.2015
SerebrinaIstchenko1983
ShaanxilithesXing, Yue et Zhang1984junior synonym of Nenoxites
ShepshediaBoynton et Ford1995rejected as valid taxon, "ivesheadiomorph"-type fossil structure
SinotubulitesChen, Chen et Qian1981
SkinneraWade1969Trilobozoa
Skolithos declinatusFedonkin1985Trace fossil
SolzaIvantsov2004
SomatohelixSappenfield, Droser et Gehling2011
SpriggiaSouthcott1958discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
SprigginaGlaessner1958Proarticulata
StaurinidiaFedonkin1985
StellariaGrytsenko2016
StreptichnusJensen et Runnegar2005Vendotaenid or Trace fossil
StudeniciaGureev1983putative Monocraterion trace fossil
SuzmitesFedonkin1981junior synonym of Onegia
SwartpuntiaNarbonne, Saylor et Grotzinger1997
TamgaIvantsov2007Proarticulata
TateanaSprigg1949discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
Temnoxa mollusculaIvantsov2004
ThectardisClapham, Narbonne, Gehling, Greentree et Anderson2004Sponge
TirasianaPalij1976discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
TrepassiaNarbonne, Laflamme, Greentree et Trusler2009
TribrachidiumGlaessner1959Trilobozoa
TriforilloniaGehling, Narbonne et Anderson2000
VaizitsiniaSokolov et Fedonkin1981junior synonym of Rangea
ValdainiaFedonkin1983Proarticulata
VaveliksiaFedonkin1983Sponge
VelancorinaPflug1966
VendellaGureev1987discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
VendiaKeller1969Proarticulata
VendichnusFedonkin1979possible pseudofossil
VendoconulariaIvantsov et Fedonkin2002Conulata
VendoglossaSeilacher2007junior synonym of Protechiurus
VendomiaKeller1976Proarticulatajunior synonym of Dickinsonia
VendomycesM. B. Burzin1993Chytridiomycetes
VendotaeniaGnilovskaya1971Vendotaenid
VentogyrusIvantsov et Grazhdankin1997
VeprinaFedonkin1980
VernanimalculaChen J. Y2004
VimenitesFedonkin1980
VinlandiaBrasier, Antcliffe et Liu2012
VirgatiaGrytsenko2016
VladimissaFedonkin1985
WigwamiellaRunnegar1991discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters
WindermeriaNarbonne1994
WutubusChen, Zhou, Xiao, Wang, Guan, Hong et Yuan2014
YangtziramulusShen, Xiao, Zhou et Yuan2009
YarnemiaNesov in Chistyakov et al.1984
YelovichnusFedonkin1985palaeopascichnidjunior synonym of Palaeopascichnus
YorgiaIvantsov1999Proarticulata
YuriaGrytsenko2016
ZolotytsiaFedonkin1981